From d2edb8a538a60900531091d698dc147ee0e06081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:52:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] when doing history string tab completion, skip over an exact
 match unless it's the only match, as the old history code did

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@2643 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8
---
 src/search.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
index c032f834..05e7888d 100644
--- a/src/search.c
+++ b/src/search.c
@@ -1268,26 +1268,34 @@ char *get_history_completion(filestruct **h, char *s, size_t len)
 
 	assert(hage != NULL && hbot != NULL);
 
-	/* Search the history list from the entry after the current
-	 * position to the bottom for a match of len characters. */
+	/* Search the history list from the current position to the
+	 * bottom for a match of len characters.  Skip over an exact
+	 * match. */
 	p = find_history((*h)->next, hbot, s, len);
 
+	while (p != NULL && strcmp(p->data, s) == 0)
+	    p = find_history(p->next, hbot, s, len);
+
 	if (p != NULL) {
 	    *h = p;
 	    return (*h)->data;
 	}
 
 	/* Search the history list from the top to the current position
-	 * for a match of len characters. */
+	 * for a match of len characters.  Skip over an exact match. */
 	p = find_history(hage, *h, s, len);
 
+	while (p != NULL && strcmp(p->data, s) == 0)
+	    p = find_history(p->next, *h, s, len);
+
 	if (p != NULL) {
 	    *h = p;
 	    return (*h)->data;
 	}
     }
 
-    /* If we're here, we didn't find a match, or len is 0.  Return s. */
+    /* If we're here, we didn't find a match, we didn't find an inexact
+     * match, or len is 0.  Return s. */
     return s;
 }
 #endif
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